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Companies wanting to create marketing images for their online businesses should take a look at Israel’s Cymbio (see previously). It has launched Cymagery AI to automate the entire process, from uploading images to verifying copyright compliance, reducing administrative workload by over 70%.

Israel’s CropX has linked its systems to CNH (New Holland Agriculture equipment). It means that the data collected by farm machinery can be used by farmers and advisors to achieve optimum planting, fertilization and harvesting results. CropX also links to John Deere.

Israel’s Lensy Medical is developing custom contact lenses that the optometrist will print for you after checking your vision. They will fit perfectly and comfortably and be much lower in price than today’s contact lenses.

Israel’s Rider Dome is described as “Mobileye for motorbikes”. It uses vision AI from front and rear wide-angle cameras. The real-time alert units on both mirrors issue beeps and flashes to warn of dangerous overtaking, zigzagging, collision risk, safe distance, and blind spots.

Israel’s Kubiya (see previously) helps software developers by taking away many of the repetitive tasks, allowing the user to focus on strategic tasks. Kubiya’s conversational AI assistant “Teammates” allows software engineers to provide instructions through human-like conversations.

Israel’s Elsight (see previously) has developed a communications system called Halo that allows drone operators to control drones, robots or critical application, even when they are beyond the line of sight. On Oct 8, Elsight provided its system to the IDF free of charge.

Israel’s Airwayz (see previously) has become one of the most commonly used unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems worldwide. At Rotterdam port, the busiest port in the world, Airwayz coordinates 60 drone operators serving 3,000 companies.

The technology of Australian-U.S.-Israeli-based Mobilicom (see previously) has been fitted on search-and-rescue dogs in Gaza. Mobilicom also delivers medical equipment, protects electrical lines, and monitors agricultural fields.

Tel Aviv University researchers have discovered that the Eilat sponge Theonella conica contains the bacterium, Entotheonella sp. This acts as a “detoxifying organ” converting poisons and metal pollutants into harmless minerals. It may lead to new water treatment solutions.

The new half-billion-shekels Haarazim transportation hub has opened in Jerusalem on Route 1. It includes 12 bus platforms servicing Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva, Netanya, Safed, Haifa, Rehovot, and more. It has 215 rapid electric bus charging stations, and a 200,000 sq. ft “green roof".